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NEW DELHI: Union Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said the GST has replaced the 'Congress Legacy Tax' -- which was 31 per cent for most goods -- with a 'good and simple tax', adding that the existing 28 per cent slab will be phased out following further improvement in revenue collections.

Perneet Singh
Tribune News Service
Bathinda, March 30
Almost a couple of months after the “goonda tax” row hit Guru Gobind Singh Refinery, it has received the first consignment of gravel through the rail route.
Sources said around 50 wagons of gravel reached the refinery premises on Tuesday. The refinery has a rail link through the Ratangarh Kankwal station, which was specially developed for it. Till now the rail link was being utilised by the refinery solely for transportation of its petroleum products, besides polypropylene, coal and sulphur.
The Tribune had reported in these columns last month that the refinery was exploring the feasibility of using rail link for the supply of material like sand and gravel. Incidentally, the refinery officials are completely tight-lipped over the issue

Ruchika M Khanna
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, March 28
The Badal family saga turned into a "no holds barred and bare all" tale in the Vidhan Sabha on Wednesday, with Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal hitting out at his estranged uncle and cousin.
As he rose to give his reply on the Budget discussions, Akali MLAs started a protest, carrying banners that read, "Jojo tax band karo" (referring to allegations of "goonda tax" being collected by Manpreet's brother-in-law). The otherwise suave Manpreet reacted sharply: "Mard de bachche ho tan meri puri gal suno".
From taking up the issue of drug taint on Bikram Singh Majithia (by calling him "chitta vechan wala") to highlighting how his estranged uncle (former CM Parkash Singh Badal) used t...

Our Correspondent Abohar, March 21
Claiming to be members of the local “Harvesting Combine Operators Union”, a number of miscreants on Tuesday intercepted harvesting combine machine driver Harjinder Singh of Bariwala (Muktsar) and his assistant Gurmeet Singh near Chak 17Z village in Sriganganagar and forcibly took away Rs 11,000, calling it as “entry fee” to operate in Rajasthan.
Harjinder told the police that the miscreants forced him to halt and said no combine operator would be allowed to harvest crops unless he gives Rs 11,000 as the local union fund.
“When I refused to pay the money, they took out the purse from my pocket and snatched Rs 11,000,” he alleged.
The police said a case under Sections 382 and 384 of the IPC had been registered against Kulwinder Singh and his accomplices.
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NEW DELHI: Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday said that India being a "significantly tax non-compliant" country, with wide socio-economic diversities, it cannot have a single GST rate in near future.

CHANDIGARH: Leader of Opposition (LoP) in Punjab assembly, Sukhpal Singh Khaira today demanded CBI probe or inquiry by a sitting judge of the High Court into allegations of his son’s involvement in the sleazy “Goonda” tax collection trade.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab's opposition Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday demanded a high-level impartial inquiry by either the CBI or a High Court Judge into the extortion racket going on at the Bathinda oil refinery.

Perneet Singh
Tribune News Service
Bathinda, February 19
Leader of the Opposition Sukhpal Singh Khaira today urged Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh to make public the names of Congress MLAs and their relatives who were involved in “goonda tax” collection and illegal mining.
Talking to mediapersons after visiting the Guru Gobind Singh refinery this evening, Khaira stated that during the recent Cabinet meeting, a minister had accused a colleague’s kin of collecting “goonda tax” from contractors here. He said it was the CM’s moral responsibility to disclose the names of erring ministers, MLAs and their relatives.
He said blatant illegal mining by Congress leaders, particularly in Malwa, was being reported daily. Khaira claimed that the ADGP (Intelligence) had given a detailed report, along

Tribune News Service Bathinda, February 18
Amid the uproar over collection of “goonda tax” at the Guru Gobind Singh Refinery here, contractors engaged with the Bhisiana Air Force Station have alleged similar extortion.
Pleading anonymity, a contractor carrying out construction work inside the IAF station, said, “We’ve been facing problems in getting the supply of material such as sand and gravel for the past 15 days. We are incurring losses due to the high-handedness of some elements in the local transport union.”
Another contractor claimed that they had been paying “goonda tax” of Rs 2,500-3,000 per trolley of sand. But now, those extorting money were not allowing vehicles to pass despite them being ready to pay the same. They are hinting t...

CHANDIGARH: The 'Goonda Tax' (forced extortion from businesses), a term more familiar in states like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar has made inroads in Punjab during the previous regime of SAD-BJP government headed by Parkash Singh Badal. The present Congress government headed by Capt Amarinder Singh has been carrying forward the legacy of Badal's that too with impunity.